Top 90 Quotes About Mound
#1. I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.
Yehuda Amichai
#2. I do my job on the mound and then do what I can at the plate, always working on helping the team anyway I can.
Jennie Finch
#3. Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface.
James Russell Lowell
#4. That's the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn't just walk off the mound and weep.
Raymond Chandler
#5. I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.
Dylan Moran
#6. I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.
Christy Mathewson
#7. Note to the ladies, for whom peanut butter seems to be like crack: the tablespoon scoop should be no more than a small mound, not half the jar balanced on a spoon.
Timothy Ferriss
#8. There's very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and told me what I was doing wrong with the knuckleball. Because they just didn't know. So I had to figure it out. I was on my own.
Phil Niekro
#9. You have to be confident, but there are no easy at bats. There are no lay ups; there is no wide open pass. There is a guy on the mound who is trying to feed his family.
Giancarlo Stanton
#11. Bhakti is the one essential thing.
To be sure, God exists in all beings.
Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind dwells on God.
But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
The water of God's grace cannot collect
on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
Ramakrishna
#12. You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
Casey Stengel
#13. You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.
C. J. Wilson
#14. If we lose today, it will be over my dead body. They'll have to leave me face down on the mound.
Luis Tiant
#15. As long as we win games while I'm on the mound, I feel good.
CC Sabathia
#16. Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass. It was a joy to be alive, a strange and savage joy, and she stood there in the warmth and destruction of it knowing it could not last.
Kevin Brockmeier
#17. Whilst the wolflets bayed,
A grave was made,
And then with the strokes of a silver spade,
It was filled to make a mound.
And for two cold days and three long nights,
The father tended that holy plot;
And stayed by where his wife was laid, In the grave within the ground.
Roman Payne
#18. I want to kiss every inch of you," he murmured and ground his cock against her mound. "Then I want to lick every inch. And touch. Then suck. Then fuck." He gave her hair a hard tug. "Every inch.
Olivia Cunning
#19. She once again thought about how badly she wanted to crawl back beneath the mound of already cooling blankets that covered her bed like an inviting nest.
Kimberly Derting
#20. When I take the mound in Yankee Stadium I feel like my stuff is going to be better than ever.
Andy Pettitte
#21. I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.
David Cone
#22. Owen scooped up a mound of cereal. "Box said they were magically delicious." He cleared his spoon with a big bite.
"Well, they're definitely delicious, but only you are both magical and delicious." She leaned over and pressed a sloppy kiss to his cheek.
Laura Kaye
#23. You want to be as dominant as possible and you want to put some doubt in the hitters' heads. That's what I'm trying to do every single time I'm on the mound.
Eric Gagne
#24. The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as "I am such an important man" or "I am so and so". Level the mound of "I" to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.
Ramakrishna
#25. I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.
Bobby Bonilla
#26. The doctor said I should do a lot of walking, so I walk to the mound nine or ten times a game.
Cal Ripken, Sr.
#27. As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so of the cavern and the mound; the Chinese, of the tent; the Gothic, of overarching trees; the Greek, of a cabin.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#28. I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing.
Goose Gossage
#29. He has one hand over her mound and works his fingers as if he was playing guitar, making beautiful music with her tiny button. He serenades her with a love song that only his fingers know how to pick- a tune that no man can duplicate.
Jane Emery
#30. You have to be out there and have a mound presence. You have to be real aggressive and be real confident. You have to put the hitters on defense.
Eric Gagne
#31. My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people - the me imprisoned in yesterday and the me out here on the mound; and now there is a third me trying to get in - the me in what is going to happen next.
Dodie Smith
#32. People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.
Kim Harrison
#33. The leaf twirls gently
To the dry ground
The flake tumbles lightly
To the snow mound
The lightning falls mightily
To the earth with a crash
And I plummet sleepily
From the fridge to the trash.
Such is nature's way
Francesco Marciuliano
#34. see a little village a mile ahead of us with a venerable church on a mound in the middle of it gravely presiding over the surrounding wide parish of corn.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#35. Say that the berries on a tree fermented / say that some birds ate them got drunk demented / couldn't fly straight flew straight into instead / wall of an office block and fell down dead / down on the pavement people undeterred / stepping over the mound of broken bird
Ali Smith
#36. mound. It towered above us in ancient, grassy splendor, the
Julie Kagawa
#37. Every time I take the mound, I try to win. So that's what I'm trying to do.
Masahiro Tanaka
#38. I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game emotionally.
Jennie Finch
#39. Each parasaur produced a large mound of straw-colored spoor. This was accompanied by low trumpeting from each animal in the herd - along with an enormous quantity of expelled flatus, redolent of methane.
Michael Crichton
#40. For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.
Masahiro Tanaka
#41. On the mound is Randy Jones, the left-hander with the Karl Marx hairdo.
Jerry Coleman
#42. Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.
Gaylord Perry
#43. I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound.
Greg Maddux
#44. It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
Bill Bryson
#45. This barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound of ideas and a mound of sorrows. Here misery encounters the ideal. Here the day embraces the night, and says: I will die with you and you will be born again with me.
Victor Hugo
#46. A sense that even if every scrap of a life were saved, thrown into a giant mound and then carefully sifted to extract all possible meaning, it would not add up to a life.
Siri Hustvedt
#47. Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.
Randy Johnson
#48. In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
Rahm Emanuel
#49. To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.
Steve Carlton
#50. I'd like to think that on a lot of teams, I'd be a No. 1. The thing I do know is that every time I take the mound, in my mind I'm the best pitcher in the league.
Adam Wainwright
#51. When you go out on the mound and you're confident in your body, you feel you can do anything.
Cole Hamels
#52. I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame ...
Dodie Smith
#53. I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can't simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room.
David Cone
#54. All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt ... The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake
Beverly Cleary
#55. As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
Babe Ruth
#56. Mourn not overmuch! Mighty was the fallen, meet was his ending. When his mound is raised, women then shall weep. War now calls us!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#57. I think I know what's wrong with you ... Walk up onto that pitcher's mound ... Does your stomach hurt now?"
"Yes! Ow! Ooo! Yes!"
"All right, now come down off the mound ... There ... Has it stopped hurting?"
"Yes ... Yes, I think it has!"
"There's your trouble ... Five cents, please!
Charles M. Schulz
#58. The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or on the water as well.
Jon Lester
#59. As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.
Confucius
#60. Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.
Virginia Woolf
#61. Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.
Goose Gossage
#62. Howidoono?" Dee tries to ask, but there's a mound of Brown Butter Almond Brittle ice cream on her tongue. "How did you know I needed this?" He gives her an "oh please" look. "I have a sister and a girl best friend. This is not amateur hour.
Emery Lord
#63. Do you want to stand here talking about the car, or are you going to get in it?" CeeCee asked. I was the person with horrible red hair and a mound of pink crust surrounding a diamond in her ear. I was at risk, and I had just made out with a girl in a bathroom. I got into the car.
Julie Schumacher
#64. A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings ...
Han Suyin
#65. Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.
Casey Stengel
#66. The rain washed away my pitcher's mound ... I'm a pitcher without a mound ... I'm a lost soul ... I'm like a politician out of office."
"Or a sailor without an ocean ... "
"Or a boy without a girl ...
Charles M. Schulz
#67. Klum stood on the mound, a big beast with a snarling face.
Tim Green
#68. He leaned over and stroked her mound as he growled into her ear, Dominate me.
Red Phoenix
#69. But once I'd come up with it, I realized it really was the perfect plan. Instead of waiting for Maria to come to me, I was simply going to go to her and, well ...
Send her back to where she came.
Or reduce her to a mound of quivering gelatinous goo. Whichever came first.
Meg Cabot
#70. If we cannot serve a person who we can see, how can we serve a God whom we cannot see? Some just have to have their own thing and be the "boss". I grieve for these people who have become the King of their own tiny mound, when they could have been a Prince in a major organization.
Phil Pringle
#71. Let the grave mound grow a little grass, I always say; then it's safe to look.
John Irving
#72. He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
Ernest Bramah
#73. When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it.
Ted Lyons
#74. One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
Ramakrishna
#75. Don't charge the mound. Once you agree to fight, you lost already. Don't start none, won't be none.
Rob Sheffield
#76. Her grave is in Brocklebridge Churchyard: for fifteen years after her death it was only covered by a grassy mound; but now a gray marble tablet marks the spot, inscribed with her name, and the word 'Resurgam'.
Charlotte Bronte
#77. Conan stared at the hand holding the pendant. The grim god of his Cimmerian northcountry, Crom, Lord of the Mound, gave a man only life and will. What he did with them, or failed to do, was up to him alone. Life and will.
Robert Jordan
#78. I get over bad games right away. Sometimes I've let it go even before I've left the mound. That quick. Why? Because it's over. What can you do about it? Nothing. The only thing you can do is fight if you're still in the game. After that you can do nothing.
Mariano Rivera
#79. The smallest of them was sprawled on his belly, face buried in a mound of wildflowers.
Sarah J. Maas
#80. Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.
Aldous Huxley
#81. I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!
Tim McCarver
#82. The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.
Joe Garagiola
#83. A mist rises from a nearby mound. It could be me, that mist, or simply the caretaker's mower-dust. If the breeze blows just right, I'll ghost your solid, entwine your hair. Promise me you won't shampoo, but carry me along, tiny dust-particles of me.
Chila Woychik
#84. Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#85. Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.
Henry David Thoreau
#86. In the last few moments before dawn, Vianne sat near the mound of fresh-turned earth. She wanted to pray, but her faith felt far away, the remnant of another woman's life.
Kristin Hannah
#87. I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.
Eric Gagne
#88. And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#89. Every time I go out to the mound, I think about where I come from and what I used to have.
Francisco Rodriguez
#90. My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings.
Tom Seaver
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